I've downloaded the latest jBPM Designer release.There is a bug which appeared to be fixed in the head.However it is not in the current released version, what should I do, i.e can I have a patch?When is the next release planned.

Warning: if you run the above code, it will download and install eclipse in default locations that are specified in the build.xml. You might want to edit those if you want them to be downloaded and installed at other locations or if you have them already somewhere on your disk.

Bruno was kind enough to post the above message for me. Thanks Bruno! And thanks Koen for your response.

I have previously tried to do a build as you describe and had problems with it trying to replace my linux eclipse installation with a windows version. Is there a way to let it know I have a linux installation?

You shouldn't let the build system replace your eclipse installation. Use the downloaded eclipse only to compile the jBPM plugin. It is sufficient to point the build file to some workfolder where this installation can stick around without disturbing the rest of your system. It doesn't matter that this Eclipse is the Windows variant, it is only used to perform headless compilation so the Windows specific libraries are never used. On my Fedora installation this works fine.

I built the designer over the weekend and deployed it, however GPD-169 does not seem to be fixed.

The test I did to check whether the bug had been fixed was to create a simple process flow, save it, close it, reopen it, add a new node, save it, close it, open it. The result was a jumbled process flow as previously encountered and as reported in bug GPD-169.

It's quite possible that I've done something wrong in building and deploying, so here's what I did: I followed your instructions above for building the designer (downloading 260 MB of files in the process). This resulted in a jbpm-jpdl-designer.zip file that I unzipped into a directory. I created a fresh installation of eclipse 3.3, with clean .eclipse directory and new workspace, and added the new designer as a plugin via the eclipse gui.